Hong Kong launched a naming contest for the city’s giant panda cubs on Saturday, a day before they make their public debut at Ocean Park. At a ceremony to launch the contest, park chairman Paulo Pong Kin-yee said the facility had also seen a 30 per cent year-on-year increase in income over the Christmas period…
Hong Kong restaurant diners spent HK$27.6 billion (US$3.5 billion) in the fourth quarter of last year, a small increase in year-on-year sales, with the government attributing the growth to a recovering mainland Chinese economy and improvements in local tourism and market sentiment. Provisional data released by the Census and Statistics Department on Thursday showed the…
Recent strength in Hong Kong’s economy petered off in the third quarter, with growth at 1.8 per cent year on year, prompting a coming revision of the government’s full-year forecast in the middle of November. The Census and Statistics Department, which released advance estimates on Thursday, said it would revise the gross domestic product (GDP)…